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Vuelta de Los Picos // Dia 2 // Cangas de Onis to Potes

Whilst I breakfast on bread, ham and cheese and watch […]

Vuelta de Los Picos // Dia 1 // Asturias airport to Cangas de Onis

As our flight descends over the Atlantic Ocean towards the […]

Bespoked 2016 weekender

Since first visiting the Bespoked Handmade Bicycle Show in Bristol a few years back the thought of riding to (and maybe from) the show has been floating around my head. […]

cycling

Jo Burt x Reilly Cycleworks

I’ll be riding down to Bristol over the next couple of days with Jo Burt to visit the Bespoked handbuilt bike show. Jo is riding a bike newly built by […]

audax

The Shark [Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 2016 ride #2]

Waiting in an underground car park early in the morning […]

cycling

Road to Rouen

I was invited by the nice people over at Victor and Liberty to write something for their blog. They asked a couple of weeks before I had a day trip […]

cycling

Epic Echappée 2016

Team DFL didn’t finish last!* *we failed to actually ride the whole thing, but laughs were had and beer was drunk. Team mate Mark wrote a full report over […]

audax

Kent Invicta Grimpeur [Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 2016 ride #1]

A quiet, pretty corner of Kent, lanes tucked away between […]

bike race

DNF

Standing under the heating vent inside Sainsbury’s Local in Crowborough, whilst a puddle of water forms at my feet, I stare at the map on my phone looking for the […]

cyclocross

2016 London X League team championships

Went and heckled friends at the 2016 London X League cyclocross team champs on Sunday. Wasn’t as revoltingly cold as last year. Then again I got a lift up with […]

commuting

Rolling through the week

I’ve written a blog post about the joys of bicycle commuting, for my friends over at Morvelo. Click on the photo below to read it. Many thanks to Lois at Morvelo […]

cyclocross

White Chalk Hills Ultracross 2015

Stretched out along the fence line, the peloton splinters into clumps of riders. Shadows tumbling down hillsides. Pedalling not against the gradient but the wind. Silhouettes scattered along the next […]

cycling

Frame By Frame

I know I said last week this wouldn’t be out until January 2016, but it was finished today.

cycling

One frame at a time

A craftsman at work, a skill that is second nature: Cut, grind, file, clamp, fit, braze, weld. Repeat. Back and forth, here, there, this bench, that jig. Sparks flying from […]

cycling

Rounds

The final chase. The last race of the night. A madison, an undetermined number of laps. The fug of the previous 40 laps of the dernies hangs in the artificially […]

audax

Greenwich Mean Climb 300km [Brevet des Grimpeur du Sud ride #6]

04:29, Dyke Road, Brighton, heading for London. Underworld are played […]

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